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    Moving Steam to a new partition?

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    #1  Edited By triple07

    So after going through and messing with my hard drive I ended up creating a new partition for just my games to keep things organized a little better and to make sure I have room on my C drive so now I want to move Steam over which is where 95% of my games are. So here's my question: do you guys know a good way to do this? I remember Brad saying something about it on a podcast a while back but not what he said about it. I have a fast enough internet that I can just redownload the games I want to play but I don't want to lose all my save games. So for the games that use Steam cloud I think I'm fine but what about games like Stalker, Renegade Ops, the Witcher, etc? Is there a central place that the saves are stored or will I have to go through each game and find the saves?

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    #3  Edited By AlexW00d

    @triple07 said:

    So after going through and messing with my hard drive I ended up creating a new partition for just my games to keep things organized a little better and to make sure I have room on my C drive so now I want to move Steam over which is where 95% of my games are. So here's my question: do you guys know a good way to do this? I remember Brad saying something about it on a podcast a while back but not what he said about it. I have a fast enough internet that I can just redownload the games I want to play but I don't want to lose all my save games. So for the games that use Steam cloud I think I'm fine but what about games like Stalker, Renegade Ops, the Witcher, etc? Is there a central place that the saves are stored or will I have to go through each game and find the saves?

    Few games save to the install directory, most are documents. I think anyway.

    Also this for the moving stuff.

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